MicroSoft Windows is what 10`s of Millions of $$ - and the 100s of
programmers that money feeds - can produce to cocoon users into accepting
not being able to program their own machines .

CoSy is what an intelligent individual can create for himself when his
NoteComputer is his only support in business life in New York and Chicago .

CoSy continues to be viable , despite being hobbled by its foundation in a
decade old APL hobbled by the 16 bit address space IBM needlessly hobbled
the masses with for an extra decade by choosing Intel over Motorola .

CoSy continues to be uniquely viable for the support of every day life
because it`s highest purpose is to remember the details of daily thoughts -
both the mundane : foen numbers - the most valuable numbers ,
and the most abstract .

All of this is edited in CoSy .

The core idea is to have piles of general purpose
electronic paper -- hyper-paper if you will . The environment is windows of
text ( I called them Jobs - after Steve ) . You can
take notes etc , - tap Enter , and they will be word-wraped and
auto-indented . If you write down something in CoSy extended APL , - Tap F6
and it will be done .

Hypertext linking is provided by ctrlF6 programmed to restart the
Job whose name - or fragment thereof - is under the cursor . ( Unfortunately
I have never had the time to wake up the mouse even as alternate cursor keys
. )
See Language/HyperText

shiftF8 inserts a time stamp in the text at the cursor .

F10 reads the word ( non-blank_string_of_characters ) under the cursor
as a phone number and dials it .

F6 reads the line under the cursor as a statement in CoSyAPL language
and does it , inserting any result in the text .

F9 shows a History list of Jobs in memory . Jobs must be explicitly
saved to disk using facilities of sF10 menu .

shiftF7 asks to mark the begining and end of text to be read and defined
as a new or modified definition of a word in the system .

CoSy the notebook is written in CoSy the language , which , once a
foundation was laid , has been written in CoSy the notebook .

CoSy is based in STSC APL+ Version 7 , circa 1987 , which is so old ,
its greatgrandversion , 10 , has been released as freeware .

First , make a directory , \COSY , and download
http://www.cosy.com/language/xfer/cosy.zip
into it . Extract the files . Then simply RUN COSY . CoSy should boot to
showing PacManCLK ( the arc from the hr ( 24 base ) to the minute ) with an
empty password so if you just tap RETURN a couple of times CoSy will open up
and you should have about 140k free memory ( look on the upper left next to
F1:Help ( This is original MS-DOS circa `88 APL ; It operates in the 1st
640.KB ) ) .

CoSy is easy to set up under Windows95 , but the CoSy font including APL
characters is not available .
From the start menu , just run | cosy.bat | in the directory
containing CoSy .